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| Sunday 9 February 2020 | |
| 18:00 | Registration open Welcome drink in the hotel lobby Dinner afterwards on your own |
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| Monday 10 February 2020 | |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Welcome Danick Bionda • Secretary General, Micronarc Prof. Dr. Volker Saile • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Raphaël Conz • Office for Economic Affairs, Canton of Vaud (SPEI) |
| 09:30 - 10:15 | Invited Keynote on the Future of Micro-manufacturing I Chair: Volker Saile, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Prof. Dr.-Ing. Alfons Dehé Director, Hahn-Schickard, Germany  A MEMS success story – success factors and can we repeat it? |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee & Exhibition Visit |
| 10:45 - 12:00 | Micro-manufacturing Applications I – Watchmaking Chair: Philippe Fischer, FSRM Michele Palmieri, Vice President Micro & Nano Systems Division, CSEM (Switzerland) Advancing Micro and Nano-technologies for the watch industry and beyondLaetitia Philippe, Empa (Switzerland) Development of Innovative Watch springs Materials using State-of-the-Art electrochemical Additive ManufacturingOlivier Desjeux, Consultant Strategy Technology (Switzerland) Crypto-Watch A. Favre & Fils, Integrating blockchain technology inside a traditional mechanical watch Exhibitor elevator pitch (3 min) - Lyncée Tec Exhibitor elevator pitch (3 min) - LASEA |
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch in the hotel |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Micro-manufacturing Applications II – Medtech Chair: Erol Harvey, Bionics Institute Prof. Oliver Paul, IMTEK (Germany) MEMS Technologies for Optogenetics in the Heart, Ear, and BrainProf. Danilo Demarchi, Politecnico di Torino (Italy) Bio-Inspired Smart Systems for Robotics and Biomedical Engineering: humanoid robots and robotized humans.Prof. Pavel Levkin, Biofunctional Materials Systems, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Germany) Designing new functional materials through the combination of orthogonal propertiesDr. Pietro Bernasconi, R&D Engineer, Solutions Division, FEMTOprint SA (Switzerland) 3D Micro-Printing: A new Era for Med-Tech Applications Exhibitor elevator pitch (3 min) - IcoFlex Sarl Exhibitor elevator pitch (3 min) - Amplitude Laser |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee & Exhibition Visit |
| 15:30 - 17:15 | SENSORS Chair: Sebastian Gautsch, EPFL Benedetto Vigna, President, Analog, MEMS and Sensors Group, ST Microelectronics (Switzerland/Italy) What is the real driving force behind Internet of Things?Markus Graf, Director R&D, Sensirion (Switzerland) Smart Environmental Sensor Systems for a Digital and Sustainable WorldFrederic Loizeau, CSEM (Switzerland) Plastic antibodies – how to minic one of nature’s best chemical sensors?Markus Ulm, Chief Technical Officer, Bosch Sensortec GmbH (Germany) Evolution and Role of Software in Sensors Exhibitor elevator pitch (3 min) - COAT-X Exhibitor elevator pitch (3 min) - HYBRID Elevator pitch (3 min) - EPFL INDUSTRY DAY |
| 17:15 | Adjourn for the day |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner ~ Meet in hotel lobby at 19:00 |
| 19:30 | Departure of private train to Restaurant du Col de Bretaye |
| 20:00 | Aperitif at Restaurant |
| 20:30 | Swiss Traditional Meal Networking Micronarc draw for Prizes (including Tissot T-Touch watch) |
| 23:00 (approximately) | Departure of Train for Villars, arrival at hotel at approximately 23:30. |
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| Tuesday 11 February 2020 | |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Invited Keynote on the Future of Micro-manufacturing II Chair: Danick Bionda, Micronarc Prof. Dr. Manfred Kohl, Institute of Microstructure Technology, KIT (Germany) Shape memory microactuators: The route from material science to smart device applications |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Coffee & Exhibition Visit |
| 10:30 - 12:15 | Novel Manufacturing Chair: Prof. Volker Saile, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Prof. Dr. Jasmin Aghassi-Hagmann, Institute of Nanotechnology, KIT, Karlsruhe and Offenburg University (Germany) Inkjet printed electronic devices and circuitsAlain Reiser, Laboratory for Nanometallurgy, Department of Materials, ETH Zürich (Switzerland) Additive micro-manufacturing of metals and its materials challenges – microstructure, properties and novel multi-material electrochemical concepts.Dr.-Ing. Marc Christopher Wurz, Institute for Microproduction Technology, Leibniz Universitaet Hannover (Germany) New production approaches for microsystems using the example of injection-molded wafers and flexible substratesDr. Joachim Schulz, Managing Director, microworks GmbH (Germany) Grating interferometry - New Modalities for the X-Ray inspection of Additively Manufactured Parts Exhibitor elevator pitch (3 min) - Gloor Instruments |
| 12:15 - 14:00 | Lunch in the hotel |
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Invited Keynote on the Future of Micro-manufacturing III Chair: Prof. Volker Saile, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Erol Harvey, Head Strategy and Translation, Bionics Institute (Australia) Design and micro-manufacturing of human neurobionics for hearing, vision, Parkinson’s, epilepsy, diabetes and more. |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Final Remarks |
| 15:00 | Conference adjourns Farewell reception in hotel lobby |